I was out rather late one night, when the foreman of my department, who owed me a grudge, abused me like a dog, and told me I might consider myself dismissed, and that I should be paid my wages in the morning. I don't know how I kept my hands off him, for my monkey was up; […]

She shrank back, the words volcanoed, words that stabbed again, and yet again

By moving the capital from Almaty, which is a thoroughly Russianized city, the government wants to Kazakhize the political center of the country.

We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches.